-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 10/08/14 05:03 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/08/14 18:18, Igor wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Hereby the summary of my personal suggestions to increase GENTOO >> stability and help it's maintainers and developers. >> >> 1. make.conf >> >> Add >> >> BUG_REPORT_URL "http://";(or similar name) BUG_REPORT ON/OFF >> BUG_REPORT_LEVEL >> >> to make.conf > > Apart from the huge work to implement this, I think any automatic > reporting of build failures will not be useful due to a very bad > signal to noise ratio. Bug wrangling will be insane. What are the > experiences in the industry. Is Mozilla getting anything useful > out of their automatic crash reports? > > Cheers, Thomas > >
I haven't been able to track down the right people in mozilla to ask, yet. I have seen some bugs where the developers that work on fixing an issue are indeed referencing the crash dumps that were submitted; i don't know if or how well the crash report submitting links multiple crashes together to the same issue, though. Mozilla also has a very hefty 'try' (tinderbox) system, though, that runs builds on every single commit across every platform that is supported -- I believe they have a number of tools that help aggregate the errors and warnings from those logs to provide useful output to support development, and I think that model might be more comparable to what we would need in Gentoo -- essentially, this project Igor is suggesting would turn the Gentoo community into one massive tinderbox. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlPqIO0ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPBfaAD+IKBIQWf0L4WF2pd6iCzdDUU0 l11GSV6NfnpQYG/qilYBAI+bEUHYqxA75Uhrg+m9lqJ0CzwBpm4Tn0ya1MzmiXxC =gi7Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
